The Comparison of Two Mystical Characters in The Shahnameh and The Mahabaharata.
Subject Areas : Abstract ArticlesSafiyeh Mousavi 1 , Fatemeh Modarresi 2
1 - PhD Student in Persian Language and Literature, Department of Mysticism, Urmia University, Faculty of Persian Language and Literature, Urmia - Iran
2 - Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Urmia University, Faculty of Persian Language and Literature, Urmia - Iran.
Keywords: Keywords : the Shahnameh, The Mahabaharata, Kaykhosrow, Sakdeev,
Abstract :
Abstract In the religious books of The Avesta and The Mahabaharata which are the tenet books of the Iranians and The Indians, there are numerous common narratives and names which indicate the common beliefs of the two nations thousands of years ago. The two well-known aforementioned books have similarities in cultural, national and religious differences in these well-bred nations. We can see lots of national, mystical, and religious characters in these two books. One of them is Kaykhosrow in the Shahnameh whose fate and ethical and mystical features are comparable with Sakdeev in the Mahabaharata. The few differences in these two stories are related to their mothers' characters and the way they were born. The other difference is that Kaykhosrow travels together with his friends while Sakdeev does it alone. In the Persian story all the friends and people ask him not to go to this travel but in Sakdeev only his father bewares him . At the same time their mothers have a little different characteristics. We will study the common and different points of these two mystics in detail in this paper.
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